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Foundation Founder | WAC Artifact | Affinity group | Team members 30 WAC Magazine | wac.net Foundation Founder WAC Artifact Affinity group Team members Club Life E M I L I O H U E R TA S Washington Athletic Club Foundation Founder Earl Lasher relocated to Han- ford, Washington, from New York City with his family when he was 5 years old. A year later, his family moved to Seattle. "When I was young, coming to the WAC was a way for my parents to get rid of me," Earl jokes almost eight decades later. "I had to take a bus from Mount Baker, and I'd play basketball, box, and swim all day." In the mid-1940s, only the original Clubhouse stood at the corner of Sixth and Union. At the time, it was one of the city's tallest buildings, and Seattle's population was half what it is today. It would be another decade and a half before the Space Needle rose on the sky- line. "ere's so much I could say," Earl recalls. "e WAC was a whole different place back then." ough the Clubhouse and the ameni- ties have changed, Earl's love of the WAC has remained. "e Club gave me lifelong access to what I consider the most im- portant things in my life," Earl says. Aer earning a law degree from the University of Washington in 1966, Earl founded Lasher Brotman & Sweet law Honoring a WAC Foundation Founder Member Earl Lasher reflects on a lifetime of adventures and WAC memories By Joey Carreon u WAC Foundation Founder Earl Lasher on the waterfront balcony of Ray's Boathouse.